Show production the mines of utah are approaching the end of the most prosperous year of their history the high prices of all ali metals have stimulated the industry to an extent never before possible and the result has been a vast increase in production as well as in the value of the output statistics mean nothing to most of us we regard them as an invention of the devil designed to befuddle the intellect of the listener or reader and generally collected to prove some point of argument whether they are right or wrong in fact their strong point in a debate or in any statement lies in the fact that usually they must be accepted as gospel simply because the means are not at hand to refute them however proven figures make it safe to predict that the mineral output of utah for the calendar year 1916 will reach a total well above possibly the great bulk of this comes from salt lake county and from the area within thirty miles of this city where the estimated total for the year is more ician than the balance is scattered over the state with the great tintic gintic and park city districts leading utah has always been considered a silver state and is always well up among the leaders in the production of the white metal however the states mineral production this year is more than two thirds copper the silver production is about 10 and the lead we have no reliable figures figure s at hand on the zinc and gold totals nor of the rare metals practically all of the copper of the state comes from one property the famous utah copper located at Bing bingham liam this is the greatest single producer in the world today its output now netting the owners 1000 1000 a week its reports show that it is producing more than pounds of copper each month and it is increasing the figure regularly the metal production being so heavy in the state it follows as a matter of course that this is banner year to date in the matter of mine dividends also next year will probably excel its record owing to the probability of the war continuing but if unforeseen events were to end the struggle soon this year would have hung up records of production and of dividends which would not be equaled for many years to come following which statement of facts the mining review wishes to thank the thousands of loyal friends of the industry who voted against the tax amendment at the late election and who by so doing effectively snowed under a measure which was designed primarily to swat the mines |